{"id":474464,"date":"2010-03-26T03:11:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/?p=16733"},"modified":"2010-03-26T03:11:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:11:21","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s-%e2%80%9chummingbird%e2%80%9d-chip-to-have-3x-gpu-power-of-snapdragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474464","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S \u201cHummingbird\u201d chip to have 3x GPU power of Snapdragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know the Samsung Galaxy S contains the fastest graphics processing unit of any Android phone? Neither did I because Samsung felt that spec wasn’t important enough to include in their official press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It took me awhile to realize it, but I was watching the Galaxy S keynote highlights<\/a> and noticed Samsung’s Omar Khan mention their 1 GHz chip could “process a staggering 90 million triangles per second”. He claimed this was three times faster than any smartphone so I went and verified the numbers. The Snapdragon platform (QSD8×50) only does 22 million triangles per second.<\/p>\n

So how could this be? How could Samsung produce one of the most powerful Cortex-A8 based processors and just completely leave it off their press kit for the Galaxy S?<\/p>\n

It took me a lot of searching (really, I should be sleeping), but I was able to dig up all the goods on this magical processor.<\/p>\n

Apparently the Samsung Galaxy S features their new S5PC110<\/a> application processor which was announced last year. This processor contains an ARM Cortex-A8 core paired with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU.<\/p>\n

The Cortex-A8 core is codenamed Hummingbird and it was designed by Intrinsity<\/a> who claims it is the fastest Cortex-A8 processor around. I will spare you that I’m some kind of ARM architecture expert and refer you to their press release<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n

Very little is know about the PowerVR SGX540 because it has only been shown off on two device so far – the Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) and the Samsung Wave (S8500).<\/p>\n

Here is a GPU comparison for some of the leading smartphones:<\/strong><\/p>\n